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Inside ‘A history of Ireland in 100 words’: Gruaig

What’s a wicker boat got to do with hair-styles? Find out more about medieval Irish fashion in today’s entry.

Inside ‘A history of Ireland in 100 words’: Fliuch

Why might you need a helmet on a rainy day in Munster? Find out in today’s entry on the penetrating misery of an Irish downpour.

‘Church of Ireland: Disestablishment and beyond’

If you missed our sell out conference on the 27 February 2020 commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Disestablishment of the Church of Ireland you…

Inside ‘A history of Ireland in 100 words’: Ríomhaire

Did you know that Saint Columba could ‘number the stars’ and predict the course of the moon? Find out more in today’s entry on star-counting.

Inside ‘A history of Ireland in 100 words’: Caoch

Why can’t the one-eyed man be king? Find out in today’s entry on blindness, blemishing and being ‘blind drunk’!

Inside ‘A history of Ireland in 100 words’: Grá

What exactly is a ‘love-spot’? Find out in today’s entry on affairs of the heart.

Inside ‘A history of Ireland in 100 words’: Cróga

Why does this Cú Chulainn have apples spiked on his hair? Find out in today’s entry on bravery, bloodiness and the infamous ‘warp spasm’!

New DIFP exhibition in National Archives of Ireland: Ireland joins the UN, December 1955

Our December exhibition co-curated with the National Archives of Ireland looks at Ireland’s accession to the United Nations in December 1955

Quarks, Joyce and two twentieth-century physicists!

On 3 December the family of Professor Kevin Carroll, MRIA (1926-2016) presented the Academy with his signed first-edition copy of Finnegans Wake. We are delighted…

‘Revealing the past: archaeological excavation and research in Ireland’

If you did not manage to secure a place at this year’s sell-out seminar you can listen to it now.

Halloween special: ominous birds and banshees

Discover the origins of the word ‘badhbh’ in our book A history of Ireland in 100 words

325-million-year-old amphibian bones discovered in County Clare

The fossilised bones of a tiny amphibian-like creature that scurried around the shores of County Clare 325 million years ago have been discovered.